These are options for the near future once we travel to Spain, see the US east coast, and return to AZ.
1. Have a baby. Or invest $50K in a business. We spoke with an american woman living here who had gained her citizenship by having a child here. Once you have a child here, the child become a citizen and gives the parents citizenship as well. Another option that the woman was telling us about was to invest $50K into a business (cannot be real estate). Her husband, an argentinan, were living here and had a restaurant in Tamarindo. They operated a taco shop and seemed very content, busy and relaxed. Quite exciting.
So either we make our first child a Tico or we invest in a business! And seriously, how fun would it be to operate a small restaurant or bed&breakfast!
2. Teach English-native speakers desired greatly. A guy from louisiana had plans to stay down here for a year, he did the language school for a month, and just obtained a job to teach English at a school in San Jose to teach business professionals better English. He has a Teach English as a Foreign Language degree and a undegraduated degree in Anthropology. Krystle received a reference for a school nearby the language school we are attending that perfers native speakers. So this is definitely an option.
3. Enroll at Univ of Costa Rica! $4000-5000 US dollars for a graduate degree in 2 years! So a chapter in the book of our Spanish school provides information in comparing social aspects of the Costa Rica to the rest of the world. Economy, population, education, etc. One of these factor was compare the cost of education to your home country. Which for Costa Rica is amazing cheap, perhaps a bit less prestigious as well. But something Krystle are thinking about is to return someday and practice our spanish in a college by obtaining a degree here. It's cheap; gets us a student visa; allows us to study a new subject(linguistics, anthropology, computer science-these are my ideas; Krystle would probably just do nursing grad) and the spanish language!
I vote for option 2 or 3...option 1 makes me nervous either way. Having a child away from family and friends just makes the whole process even harder plus, think about what you'd be doing to your poor parents! ha ha...I think option 3 would be a great opportunity though! That's just my opinion..in case you wanted it. Which I know you both did! :)
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